Real Deal: Young Entrepreneur Bakes with a Mission to Heal

Twenty-two year old Hannah Deal says she began baking at the age of three, and that throughout her childhood the worst punishment that her parents could inflict was to ban her from the kitchen.

Twenty-two year old Hannah Deal says she began baking at the age of three, and that throughout her childhood the worst punishment that her parents could inflict was to ban her from the kitchen. Later, at James Madison University, she says she dealt with stress by baking, and by her third year she had decided to turn her life-long habit into a career and go into the wedding cake business and eventually open a bakery.

Then, in the summer of 2017, she says a “mystery illness began taking things from me one by one.”

“One of the first steps I took in an attempt to manage my failing health was to cut common food allergens and inflammatories out of my diet,” says Deal. “ My trips to the grocery store soon became frustrating, as most everyday food items were loaded with sugar, dairy, soy or something else I wanted to avoid. One of my go-to snacks became homemade nut butter.”

That experience led her to launch Hannah's Homemade in June last year; an organic, gourmet nut and granola butter business…